Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy started spreading on the Internet this week. The US says the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy theories are completely 'baseless' despite some people believing it to be true.
What is the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy? According to the theories, the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was secretly taken to Diego Garcia, a small island home to a U.S. base. However, despite this being subject of several linked theories, the U.S. says that these are "baseless conspiracy theories".
The most recent is the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy. It came after what appeared to be an all-black photo being posted on 4Chan, a social media website where several pranks are spread. The post was done by an anonymous individual on March 18 under the title "help."
The anonymous person said, "I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded)." The person added, "I work for IBM and I have managed to hide my cellphone in my [expletive] during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
This post sparked the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy. According to reports, Wood was the only American aboard the flight, which vanished after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8. Despite the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy being posted on the social networking site, experts, including people on the forum Metabunk, quickly dismissed the possibility of it being true.
Experts said the GPS data on the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy cited by some bloggers as proof of the Diego Garcia theories was replaced. One poster on Metabunk said, "It's nonsense because it's so easy to fake GPS EXIF data. Here's the same 'photo' with the EXIF moved to the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas." The poster added, "Since it's such a trivial thing to fake, and combined with the ridiculous narrative of smugging an iPhone 5 up his rectum, and the image being black (iPhone 5 has a flash) the only sensible conclusion is that this is a hoax."
The poster commenting on the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy also left an indication in the EXIF data, added extra "Photoshop" metadata, and stored the GPS data in a different format, and said, "The originally posted photo seems to have been clumsily faked using the free software "Picasa". This is so preposterous yet it's gone viral as so many are willing to believe it. I'm particularly sad about such conspiracy theories because of the effects it has on the relatives."
Because of this Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy, the U.S. government has now come into the conversation, and called the theories groundless. According to a reports from the New Straits Times, the embassy's press attaché Harvey Sernovitz debunked the Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy saying, "This is a baseless conspiracy theory that has already been debunked around the world, and the White House Press Secretary specifically addressed this on March 18." Sernovitz added, "These reports are completely false. MH370 did not land in Diego Garcia. This is a baseless conspiracy theory."
Sernovitz also denied that the U.S. withheld any information from the Malaysia government and said that the U.S. was among the first countries to respond to help with the search and rescue mission of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. He said, "I encourage you to ask the Malaysian government to describe the assistance it has received from the US government and companies. In the meantime, we continue to provide all relevant technical, investigative and search and recovery support as requested by the government of Malaysia. We will continue to share information and analyses about MH370."
Phillip Wood Flight 370 hijacking conspiracy is just one of the few conspiracy theories surrounding the internet as the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues. Among these can be read on this article here.
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